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Missouri Compromise
Description of the event: The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by Henry Clay to help end the conflict over Missouri's application to become a slave state, which would have ruined the balance of power between free and slave states. The Compromise was that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state.
Significance: The Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery above the 36-degree 30' latitude in the rest of the Louisiana territory.